"Plain Style" is an amusing and instructive guide to written
English by the late Christopher Lasch, author of "The Culture of
Narcissism," "The True and Only Heaven," and many other memorable
works of American history and social criticism. Written for the
benefit of the students at the University of Rochester, where Lasch
taught from 1970 until his death in 1994, it quickly established
itself in typescript as a local classic--a lively, witty, and
historically minded alternative to the famous volume by William
Strunk and E. B. White, "The Elements of Style." Now available for
the first time in published form, "Plain Style" is fundamentally a
clear, readable, practical guide to the timeless principles of
effective composition. At the same time, however, in ways that
Stewart Weaver explains in his critical introduction, it is a
distinctive and revealing addition to the published work of an
eminent American thinker. No mere primer, "Plain Style" is an essay
in cultural criticism, a political treatise even, by one for whom
directness, clarity, and honesty of expression were essential to
the living spirit of democracy. As the teachers and students who
have for years benefited from its succinct wisdom will testify,
"Plain Style" is an indispensable guide to writing and, indeed,
Christopher Lasch's least-expected but perhaps most serviceable
work.
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